Andriessen M., Pentland P., Gaut R., Mckay B., Tacon J. Physics 2: HSC Course

3rd Edition. – John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd, Australian, 2008. – 560. – ISBN: 0731408233This third edition of Physics 2: HSC Course is revised and updated to meet all the requirements of the amended Stage 6 Physics Syllabus for Year 12 students in New South Wales. Written by a team of experienced Physics teachers, Physics 2 offers a complete resource with coverage of the threecore modules as well as three option modules: Quanta to Quarks, Astro-physics and Medical Physics.Earth‘s gravitational field
Launching into space
Orbiting and re-entry
Gravity in the solar system
Space and time
The motor effect and DC electric motors
Generating electricity
Generators and power distribution
ChapteAC electric motors
Cathode rays and the development of television
ChThe photoelectric effect and black body radiation
The development and application of transistors
Superconductivity
Looking and seeing
Astronomical measurement
Binaries and variables
Star lives
The use of ultrasound in medicine
Electromagnetic radiation as a diagnostic tool
Radioactivity as a diagnostic tool
Magnetic resonance imaging as a diagnostic tool
The atomic models of Rutherford and Bohr
Development of quantum mechanics
Probing the nucleus
Nuclear fission and other uses of nuclear physics
Quarks and the Standard Model of particle physics